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Plex is a streaming powerhouse for all your content needs. Organize, access, and stream your media on any device, anytime, and anywhere. Now featuring customized, trusted video news from local and global publishers. There’s never been a better time to cut the cord!

• Plex organizes all of your media collections—movies, shows, music, photos, and videos—and streams them to any device, anytime, anywhere.• Cut the cord! Go premium with a Plex Pass and use Plex Live TV & DVR so you can watch and record free over-the-air HD TV, like NBC, ABC, CBS, and FOX, with any supported digital antenna and tuner.• Plex is packed with tons of free features, like remote access, sharing, security, and casting, and it makes your media beautiful with rich descriptions, artwork, ratings, and more.• Stay up-to-date with Plex News: a free personalized newscast with trusted local, national, and international news sources, like CBS, Euronews, IGN, AJ+, Sky News, and more.• Enjoy premium features with a Plex Pass subscription: Live TV & DVR, Mobile Sync, Premium Photos, Premium Music, Parental Controls, and so much more.

Want to use Plex on all of your devices, any time, anywhere? Visit https://www.plex.tv/ for more information.

The app offers (but does not require) a Plex Pass In-App Purchase. Plex Pass is available for the equivalent of US$4.99 charged monthly to your iTunes Account, charged yearly for the equivalent of US$39.99, or as a one off lifetime payment of equivalent of US$149.99. Subscriptions automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off in your iTunes Account at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, charged at the same rate for renewals. Subscriptions may be managed and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to your iTunes Account Settings after purchase. The Plex Privacy Policy and Terms of Use are available at: https://plex.tv/legal

What's New

Version History

4.26

Mar 7, 2018

NEW:- Support "Smart Invert Colors" accessibility mode.

FIXED:- Some subtitles wouldn't work.- The app was responding incorrectly to certain remote control requests.- Some date-based episodes would get (null) on the title.- The video player controls no longer disappear automatically when video is paused.- Video playback is now correctly resumed after alarms, Siri, phone calls.- Fix playback issues on some Apple TV 3rd generation and older.- Include Recent Playlist hubs on library discover views.

4.25

Feb 14, 2018

FIXED:- Some subtitles wouldn't work.- Creating a PlexMix playqueue during playback would reset the current track.- Sometimes sync would show an error after deleting all content.- Sometimes other users would not be able to use sync after deleting all synced content from another user.- Include additional sorts for some media types.- External subtitles are now tagged correctly.

4.23.1

Jan 8, 2018

FIXED:- Fixed issue with shared Live TV users not being able to select libraries from home screen.

4.23

Jan 3, 2018

FIXED:- Improve HDR support on devices with HDR displays. (Requires Plex Media Server 1.11.0)- Sync wouldn't work properly when the app is in background if the user didn't enable notifications.- Fixed an issue where closing the app with the share dialog open could leave the app in an unusable state.- Under certain circumstances some options in the filters list would not be visible.- Show two lines of text for photo album titles when needed- Correctly validate postal codes in News personalization- Couldn't resume some videos on Apple TV 3rd Gen.- Refresh photo albums list after deleting an album.

4.22

Dec 13, 2017

NEW:- It is now possible to change quality on live streams.- Browse by Channels in News.

FIXED:- Some proxied players wouldn't show up in the player list.- Fixed app crash receiving DVR updates from the server.- Plex Media Server would think an iOS app is playing photos when it's not.- Location selector tutorial wouldn't show up if connection to the current server failed.- Video playback errors would jump to the post-play screen.- Fixed an issue where news playback would be incorrectly limited.- Fixed crash when trying to sync under some circumstances.- Marking a show as watched or unwatched wouldn't immediately display locally.- You shouldn't mark as favorite a Photo from Camera Roll.- Fixed a crash that could occur when deleting items.- Video player wouldn't change audio stream reliably for synced content.

4.21

Nov 22, 2017

NEW:- Added home screen discover hub for News. This can be disabled in the News personalization settings.- Increased recommended quality for home streaming to Maximum.

FIXED:- Fixed issue causing the server icon to jump unexpectedly on iOS 11.- Display artist name in music video context menus, when available.- Fixed an issue adding music videos to existing playlists.- Don't show a mark as watched option for music videos in playlists.- Improve tapping areas for location picker and navigation menu buttons.- Fixed an issue with Camera Upload that could cause a crash.- Tapping the close button on Picture-in-Picture will now end playback.- Improvements in audio player UI on iPad.- Sometimes playback wouldn't resume where you left it.- Auto hide controls on the photo timeline.- Try to fit more year labels on the index of the photo timeline.- Sometimes, the first photo doesn't show as selected when selecing multiple photos.- Video player would go under the notch on iPhone X.- Fixed a crash trying to save a photo to the camera roll on iOS 11.- Fix playback issue of synced content and camera roll videos not working via AirPlay.

4.20.1

Nov 13, 2017

FIXED:- Fixed issue with local server not being available on incorrectly configured networks.

FIXED:- In rare cases News might not have started playing back automatically. - 4K videos sorted by resolution were incorrectly labelled as "4p". - Fixed rare crash in news when trying to maximize player when it wasn't loaded. - Plex Pass upgrade screen would result in endless spinner if purchase was cancelled. - AirPlay Video playback was incorrectly limited to one minute without activation. - Added Direct Play toggle back to advanced settings. - Synced music now remembers track progress. - Cast local synced content from your phone to your Apple TV. (Requires Plex for Apple TV 1.19, available soon)- Connect to the local server on your phone from your Apple TV. (Requires Plex for Apple TV 1.19, available soon)- Increased the number of items included in the newscast and categories feed. - Fixed playback quality display string for online videos. - Watch Later and Recommended videos will not always nag about conversion. - Don't show sync buttons on playlists when connected to the local server. - Don't watermark photos from the device camera roll. - Made synced photo albums present with the correct view. - Removed non-functional context menu items from synced photo albums. - Improve loading times in the image gallery. - Fix an issue that would sometimes cause full screen images to not load. - Fixed crash that could happen randomly when the app starts. - Force transcode of AC3 streams on older iOS devices that don't support it. - Shuffle button was causing an unexpected loading message in music player. - Playlists might not have displayed with older versions of Plex Media Server.

4.19.2

Oct 23, 2017

FIXED:- Privacy preferences moved to https://www.plex.tv/about/privacy-legal/privacy-preferences/

4.19.1

Oct 19, 2017

FIXED:- Transcode AC3 audio streams to AAC when playing video on Apple TV via AirPlay from iOS 11. This is a temporary fix until we can get AC3 audio streams working again on Apple TV 3rd generation.

4.19

Oct 18, 2017

NEW:- Added support for direct playback of FLAC music on iOS 11.

FIXED:- Login with Google and Facebook now suggests credentials from Safari on iOS 11.

4.18

Sep 21, 2017

NEW:- Added Plex News, bringing personalized and trusted video news from over 190 global publisher partners (and growing!), including CBS, Financial Times, Euronews, and top local news sources for over 80% of markets in the US.- Added a setting for opting out of crash reports.

FIXED:- Skipping back beyond buffered video on live content could cause playback to fail.- Fixed issue with Live TV not tuning when multiple airings were present.- Tapping on the volume buttons in the video player would disable UI auto hiding.

4.17

Aug 30, 2017

NEW:- Added Lifetime Subscription in-app purchase.

4.16.2

Aug 24, 2017

FIXED:- Fixed crash opening in-player settings with videos with CC subtitles.- Some playlists could not be synced.- Synced playlists wouldn't show up.

4.16.1

4.16

Aug 9, 2017

FIXED:- Fixed potential crash when viewing a photo timeline with very few photos.- Sometimes the browse tab on a photo library would load forever the first time you opened it.- Fixed issue where search would appear to remain loading after text was deleted.- Fixed post play screen wrongly appearing after live TV playback.- ATSC (CEA-708) closed captions can now be enabled from Playback Settings during video playback.- Fixed seek thumbs for multi-part videos.- You will now be prompted before the app allows downgrade of unverified HTTPS connections for Chromecast playback.- Fixed playback on iOS 11 (Requires PMS v1.5.1+).

4.15

Jul 19, 2017

FIXED:- Fixed playback of multipart videos.- Existing DVR recordings couldn't be modified from the context menu.- Connecting to a server without libraries would keep the Browse tab loading forever.- When viewing the Live TV queue, movies and episodes were shown using different sizes.- Crash when the app is opened after being suspended on iOS 9.

4.14

Jun 28, 2017

NEW:- Added support for timeshifting while watching Live TV (requires Plex Media Server 1.7.4 or newer).

FIXED:- Fixed issues playing synced music with bad network connectivity.- Restored missing air date on pre-play screens for TV episodes.- Show interlaced video resolution flags in preplay screens.- Fixed crash playing Live TV content under some circumstances.- Fixed issue where music would automatically pause after connecting to a bluetooth device.- Sometimes, playback of synced content wouldn't be restored correctly.- The layout for creating or modifying a DVR recording was incorrect on iOS 9.

4.13

Jun 7, 2017

FIXED:- Movie trailers Aspect Ratio was wrong.- Fix HTML-encoded text in announcements.- Fixed issue preventing Similar Artists to show up on iPhone 6.

4.12.1

4.12

May 22, 2017

NEW:- Select multiple things to add to a playlist when browsing a library.

FIXED:- Fixed rare crash in Photo Timeline.- Make sure managed users can see the Photo Timeline if the primary account can.- Buffered time wouldn't be shown in the player UI.- Playing single items from a music playlist works again.- Fixed issue on iPad where navigation menu would sometimes be visible after rotation.- Fixed issue in playback quality settings when casting to some remote players.- Playback info displays correct video and audio decisions when playing alternate media versions.- Direct Play and Direct Stream would wrongly be disabled for home streaming under some circumstances.

4.11

Apr 26, 2017

NEW:- Camera Upload now tracks what's been uploaded on your device - this means faster scanning, and you can now delete photos server side without having them re-uploaded by Camera Upload.

FIXED:- Fixed an issue where album track items would disappear from the list.- The Audio Player UI keeps a fixed width on iPad when changing between albums.- Progress bar on Discover items would be hidden on iPhone Plus.- Tweaked background color on playback settings for better readability.- Artwork for Watch Later and Recommended items wouldn't always show up.- Couldn't fling Watch Later and Recommended items to other Plex players.- Context menu shows the season and the number for Episodes.- When using as a remote controller, skipping to another item from the Play Queue screen wouldn't work.- Improved loading performance of photos in some circumstances.- Database entries missing after syncing are now detected and resolved.- Audio playback will pause while playing videos in a photo library.- Sometimes the navigation bar would become unhidden when playing videos in a photo library.- Fixed an issue where play queues with locally synced content would restore too slow after app startup.

4.10

Apr 10, 2017

NEW:- Allow syncing original quality audio (some lossless formats may still be transcoded).- Quality setting changes during playback are not persisted for future playbacks.

FIXED:- Sometimes the photo gallery would close automatically when browsing related photos.- Fixed a memory leak on "Show info" screen and several other places.- The app would send lots of requests to check the state of the transcoding session unnecessarily.- Indicate scanning state in the camera upload status bar.- Hide result location when only searching the currently selected server.- Don't show a sync error badge erroneously.- The extra black circle in Season Details View returned.- Sometimes Camera Upload was wrongly promoting Plex Pass.- Don't require a pin to change users if the pin was removed from the account in some circumstances.- Browse view is updated when the rating is changed.- Playback info was unknown for videos in a photo library.- The player UI doesn't wiggle anymore when the duration and time texts change.- The Delete option for Watch Later items was added back.

Mar 7, 2018

Version 4.26

NEW:- Support "Smart Invert Colors" accessibility mode.

FIXED:- Some subtitles wouldn't work.- The app was responding incorrectly to certain remote control requests.- Some date-based episodes would get (null) on the title.- The video player controls no longer disappear automatically when video is paused.- Video playback is now correctly resumed after alarms, Siri, phone calls.- Fix playback issues on some Apple TV 3rd generation and older.- Include Recent Playlist hubs on library discover views.

Ratings and Reviews

4.7 out of 5

10.3K Ratings

10.3K Ratings

Best Media Server

Oct 2, 2017

Bossfuji

I've been using Plex as a Media Server and iOS app for over 5 years now. Both the server and app complements each other and very easy to use. The app has features such as sync which allows you to watch movies or TV shows on your local device without needing internet access. You can configure sync to auto download any number of unwatched episodes for a TV Series. So let's say for you have Season 5 of TV show '24' for 4 unwatched episodes synced and your iPad has Eps 8-11 downloaded. You can be on an airplane and watch Eps 8 & 9. You get to your hotel and sync up again. The app will delete Eps 8-9 since they were watched and download Eps 12 & 13 since they are the next unwatched Eps. So this configuration will keep a rotating 4 unwatched episodes of '24' on your local device. The app also displays metadata (Title, Year, recap, actors, directors, posters, etc.) of the movies or TV Shows.

Best Media Server

Oct 2, 2017

Bossfuji

I've been using Plex as a Media Server and iOS app for over 5 years now. Both the server and app complements each other and very easy to use. The app has features such as sync which allows you to watch movies or TV shows on your local device without needing internet access. You can configure sync to auto download any number of unwatched episodes for a TV Series. So let's say for you have Season 5 of TV show '24' for 4 unwatched episodes synced and your iPad has Eps 8-11 downloaded. You can be on an airplane and watch Eps 8 & 9. You get to your hotel and sync up again. The app will delete Eps 8-9 since they were watched and download Eps 12 & 13 since they are the next unwatched Eps. So this configuration will keep a rotating 4 unwatched episodes of '24' on your local device. The app also displays metadata (Title, Year, recap, actors, directors, posters, etc.) of the movies or TV Shows.

Great App

Dec 16, 2017

Karther

Love this app. It has what I need for using my data and getting it anywhere. I don't understand the need to have a Plex pass I don't use this feature as it is not needed. I do think however that the Plex makers or any app or program designers should ever withhold the ability to have parental control. This feature is a security feature to make sure no children ever get what they should have and should be a default item in any app. When this becomes a standard non plex pass feature Ill give 5 stars. Its just the right thing to do. Beyond that all features are great app works like a charm. I took another star for not having the ability to have plex find all my movies. Vob and a few other standard movie types when ripped Plex did not find and i have to now convert 400+ films to a mode plex will use. Silliness. It should at least do what XBMC already does. As Most that use plex also use xbmc for hone use since the XBMC interface is better for home use and streaming plex is best for. Ill return that star when it does other formats also.

Great App

Dec 16, 2017

Karther

Love this app. It has what I need for using my data and getting it anywhere. I don't understand the need to have a Plex pass I don't use this feature as it is not needed. I do think however that the Plex makers or any app or program designers should ever withhold the ability to have parental control. This feature is a security feature to make sure no children ever get what they should have and should be a default item in any app. When this becomes a standard non plex pass feature Ill give 5 stars. Its just the right thing to do. Beyond that all features are great app works like a charm. I took another star for not having the ability to have plex find all my movies. Vob and a few other standard movie types when ripped Plex did not find and i have to now convert 400+ films to a mode plex will use. Silliness. It should at least do what XBMC already does. As Most that use plex also use xbmc for hone use since the XBMC interface is better for home use and streaming plex is best for. Ill return that star when it does other formats also.

An app worth paying for

Dec 14, 2017

Sovereign007

I have been a Plex user (free) for a few years until today when I finally become a Plex Pass (lifetime) user. I absolutely love this app and have gotten others on the bandwagon too. Once I upgraded my router I have had great streaming in my house and it wasn’t so bad with the severely outdated one too. I run an older i3 4gb ram wireless N computer and I can stream pretty high rate 1080p with little to no issues and if I have some I just dumb down the stream so the computer can handle it all. As of now I can stream and control the quality of the stream when I am away from home. My iPad Pro loves Plex and so do I. Thank you for the consistent updates to make Plex the best entertainment app and (home network/computer) software one could ever need!

An app worth paying for

Dec 14, 2017

Sovereign007

I have been a Plex user (free) for a few years until today when I finally become a Plex Pass (lifetime) user. I absolutely love this app and have gotten others on the bandwagon too. Once I upgraded my router I have had great streaming in my house and it wasn’t so bad with the severely outdated one too. I run an older i3 4gb ram wireless N computer and I can stream pretty high rate 1080p with little to no issues and if I have some I just dumb down the stream so the computer can handle it all. As of now I can stream and control the quality of the stream when I am away from home. My iPad Pro loves Plex and so do I. Thank you for the consistent updates to make Plex the best entertainment app and (home network/computer) software one could ever need!